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THE<br/>
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CHAPTER 3
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Jeremiah speaking for Judah bewails the calamity, but trusts in the Lord and prays for deliverance.
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<span class='smallcaps'>I <i>am</i></span> the man <i>that</i> hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
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He hath led me, and brought <i>me into</i> darkness, but not <i>into</i> light.
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Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand <i>against me</i> all the day.
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My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
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He hath builded against me, and compassed <i>me</i> with gall and travail.
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He hath set me in dark places, as <i>they that be</i> dead of old.
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He hath <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/3/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hosea 2: 6; D&C 122: 7.">hedged</a> me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
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Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
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He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
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He <i>was</i> unto me <i>as</i> a bear lying in wait, <i>and as</i> a lion in secret places.
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He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
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He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
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He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
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I was a <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/3/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 20: 7 (7-8).">derision</a> to all my people; <i>and</i> their song all the day.
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He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
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He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
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And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
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And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>:
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Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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My soul hath <i>them</i> still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
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This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
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&#182; <i>It is of</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
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<i>They are</i> new every morning: great <i>is</i> thy faithfulness.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>is</i> my <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/3/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 119: 57.">portion</a>, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>is</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/3/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 34: 8; Nahum 1: 7; D&C 70: 18 (17-18).">good</a> unto them that <sup>b</sup><a href="lam/3/25b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Ne. 6: 7; D&C 133: 45.">wait</a> for him, to the soul <i>that</i> <sup>c</sup><a href="lam/3/25c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ps. 34: 4 (4, 6, 10); Heb. 11: 6; Alma 37: 37 (36-37).">seeketh</a> him.
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<i>It is</i> good that <i>a man</i> should both <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/3/26a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Hope.">hope</a> and quietly wait for the salvation of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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<i>It is</i> good for a man that he <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/3/27a" mark="a" type="A" title="Micah 7: 9 (8-9); D&C 136: 31.">bear</a> the yoke in his <sup>b</sup><a href="lam/3/27b" mark="b" type="A" title="Alma 37: 35.">youth</a>.
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He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne <i>it</i> upon him.
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He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
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He giveth <i>his</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/3/30a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 50: 6; Matt. 5: 39; 3 Ne. 12: 39.">cheek</a> to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with <sup>b</sup><a href="lam/3/30b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Reproach.">reproach</a>.
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For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
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But though he cause grief, yet will he have <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/3/32a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Compassion.">compassion</a> according to the multitude of his mercies.
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For he doth not <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/3/33a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 133: 53.">afflict</a> willingly nor grieve the children of men.
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To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
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To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
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To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
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&#182; Who <i>is</i> he <i>that</i> saith, and it cometh to pass, <i>when</i> the Lord commandeth <i>it</i> not?
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Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
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Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
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Let us <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/3/40a" mark="a" type="A" title="Luke 15: 18.">search</a> and try our ways, and turn again to the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Let us <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/3/41a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 143: 8; D&C 25: 13; D&C 27: 15; D&C 30: 6; D&C 31: 3; D&C 35: 26.">lift</a> up our heart with <i>our</i> hands unto God in the heavens.
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We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
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Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/3/43a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lam. 2: 21.">slain</a>, thou hast not pitied.
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Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that <i>our</i> prayer should not pass through.
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Thou hast made us <i>as</i> the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
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All our <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/3/46a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lam. 2: 16.">enemies</a> have opened their mouths against us.
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Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
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Mine eye runneth down with <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/3/48a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Mourning.">rivers</a> of water for the <sup>b</sup><a href="lam/3/48b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lam. 2: 11.">destruction</a> of the daughter of my people.
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Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
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Till the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> look down, and behold from heaven.
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Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
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Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
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They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
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Waters flowed over mine head; <i>then</i> I said, I am cut off.
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&#182; I called upon thy name, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, out of the low dungeon.
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Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
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Thou <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/3/57a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 88: 63 (62-63).">drewest</a> near in the day <i>that</i> I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
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O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
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O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
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Thou hast seen all their vengeance <i>and</i> all their imaginations against me.
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Thou hast heard their reproach, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <i>and</i> all their imaginations against me;
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The lips of those that rose up against me, and their <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/3/62a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 11: 19; Alma 10: 13; Alma 11: 21.">device</a> against me all the day.
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Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I <i>am</i> their musick.
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&#182; Render unto them a recompence, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, according to the work of their hands.
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Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
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Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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